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The conf directory, JBoss v5.x

August 10, 2010 / posted in Jboss / 2 Comments

Configure what you need

So you’re ready to configure some JBoss files? Great, lets have a look at the conf directory. The jboss/server/<configured instance>/conf directory is where you’ll find the majority of the configuration files for your jboss instance. For most deployments, the majority of these folders and files will remain untouched as they default to usable configurations. In this article we’ll go over the more practical configurable files, while leaving the really low level configurations alone. 

`-- conf
    |-- bootstrap/
    |--|-- bindingservice.bean
    |   `-- META-INF
    |   |    `-- bindings-jboss-beans.xml *
    |   |-- aop.xml
    |

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Ejb3 Basics: Deploying Message Driven Beans

February 2, 2010 / posted in Java, Jboss / 2 Comments

Farewell to lazy auto queue generation in JBoss 5

MDB’s were never so easy to deploy and manage when ejb3 first came out. In Jboss 4, all you have to do was annotate a class with @MessageDriven, sprinkle some meta data here and there, stick it in the oven and wham! Instant “I cant believe I made an MDB!?!” In Jboss AS 5 however, MDB queues are no longer automatically created for your application anymore on boot. An inspection of the MDB llifecycle illustrates why:

  1. MDB deploys
  2. No existing Topic/Queue
  3. Topic/Queue is automatically created
  4. MDB is

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War deployment file structure

January 25, 2010 / posted in Java, Jboss / 1 Comment

What’s a war deployment, do I need my own army?

When it comes to deploying an web based application we have a few options on the table. Well only one really if you stick to J2EE standards, not counting Ear deployments which also deploy web apps via wars. Outside the world of J2EE though, it becomes a crap shoot based on the web framework you’re using. So what’s a war look like?

webapp.war
	|-- images/
	|   `-- banner.jpg
	|-- index.html
	|-- jsps/
	|   |-- public/
	|   |   `-- login.jsp
	|   `-- private/
	|       |-- application.jsp
	|

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Basic Ant scripts

January 13, 2010 / posted in Technobable, xml / No Comments

What’s an Ant script? Do I need bug spray?

Ant is a scripting tool commonly used to build, compile and deploy projects. This is in no way an all encompassing inventory of what Ant can do. It is extensible and its instructions are expressed in an xml format whose nodes comprise a framework of abilities designed to make menial tasks automated.

From a developer’s perspective, the most basic Ant tasks are the compile, package and copy tasks. All java projects must do these three things many, many, many times during a development cycle. Its very boring and tedious if you…

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External deploy directories in JBoss

January 11, 2010 / posted in Jboss / No Comments

Why not use the default jboss deploy directory?

Out of the box, jboss has a bunch of .sar, .war, and .jar deployment artifacts as well as a bunch of xml files in the default deploy directory (whose path is “jboss-install-dir/server/configured-server-instance/deploy”). For the sake of being neat and cautious, I prefer to break out any deployment artifacts that are constantly in development to a separate external directory where I would never be able to “accidentally” delete all the other important configuration files required by jboss to run. Something like that never happened to me, but a friend. Yeah, a friend. About…

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